USS Camp

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USS Camp after refit with two 5"/38cal guns
History
United States
Namesake	Jack Hill Camp
Builder	Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
Laid down	27 January 1943
Launched	16 April 1943
Commissioned	16 September 1943
Decommissioned	1 May 1946
Reclassified	DER-251, 21 October 1955
Stricken	30 December 1975
Fate	Transferred to South Vietnam, 13 February 1971
South Vietnam
Name	RVNS Tran Hung Dao (HQ-1)
Namesake	Tran Hung Dao
Acquired	13 February 1971
Fate	Escaped to the Philippines and transferred to the Philippine Navy, 5 April 1976
Philippines
Name	RPS (later BRP) Rajah Lakandula (PF-4)
Acquired	5 April 1976
Commissioned	27 July 1976
Decommissioned	1988
Stricken	1988
Status	Was in service in 1999 as a barracks ship, probably sold as scrap
General characteristics
Class and type	Edsall-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,253 long tons (1,273 t) standard 1,590 long tons (1,616 t) full load
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draft	10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)
Propulsion	4 FM diesel engines 4 diesel-generators 6,000 shp (4.5 MW) 2 screws
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	8 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament	3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns 8 × single 20 mm AA guns 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Camp (DE-251) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.